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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: RE: Flav [gc]
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:49:39 +0100

Sadly,  gc's comment is only too true.

It has been said of many religious cults that people join them and find
"nice" people in them. Indeed the best advertisement for a religion is that
someone who has joined it appears nicer to outsiders after being within it
for a while. Outsiders will notice that, and a few may join the religion
partly for that reason.

Now I know that cryonics is not a religion, but a medical procedure, even if
law doesn't recognise it as such. However people who sign up are often
healthy yet they are motivated for similar reasons as those that seek
religions -- comfort from the thought of ultimate obliteration. With
cryonics, at least they have tried something more caring and positive than
burning or rotting.

The trouble is, that if they read cryonicists' "antics" at a time they are
only vaguely interested, they could well move on.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

From: "gc" <>
References: <>
Subject: RE: Flav
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:17:58 -0500

> From: "FlavO Noid" <> ...
>> Nice article!  Finally, a bit of good press for cryonics.
>
> Or did you mean a bit of good press for Rudi Hoffman?
...
> Ah, finally found your "commercial" thing.  You really do play on
> people's needs to get it all done for them, instead of them getting it
> done less expensively for themselves, don't you.
>
> Your buddy,
>
> Flav

I can only hope the "outside" world doesn't care enough to look at our
antics.  We have got to be the most juvenile smart people on the planet...

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